Vita

Curriculum Vitae

Andrew S. Patrick

Andrew Patrick (Ph.D., Psychology, 1987) is senior researcher and consultant working in the areas of information privacy, security, and human behaviour. He is an international leader in privacy engineering, and one of the founders of the field of usable security. Dr. Patrick has over 25 years of experience in industrial, government, and academic settings. Andrew Patrick has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and conference presentations that have received more than 1,000 citations.

CURRENT POSITIONS

Independent Researcher and Consultant (2017-)

I conduct leading-edge research and work to ensure that privacy, security, and usability are built into products or services. I focus on privacy engineering and usable security.

While an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, I have been working with graduate students on a variety of projects. Recent student supervision includes co-supervising 4 Masters students and serving on the advisor committee for 2 Ph.D. projects. In total I have supervised or advised more than 10 graduate students in the past 10 years.

POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

Ph.D. – 1987. Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

In this position I acted as an in-house technical consultant on most major activities in the office, including privacy investigations under PIPEDA, reviews of Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) from government departments, research, policy development, legal analysis and court cases, parliamentary affairs and appearances, and media relations. Recent projects where I played a major role include:

Providing expert advise on new or existing databases and projects, usually in the form of Privacy Impact Assessments.

R&D Consultant, self-employed. (2009)

I conducted two small projects on: (1) predicting intent from behavioural observations; (2) harm mitigation from the release of personal information.

Senior Scientist & Group Leader, Information Security Group, Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada (NRC) (2001-2009)

Provided scientific and professional leadership to 8 scientists and developers. Conducted advanced research on privacy compliance technologies, the human factors of security systems, advanced collaboration environments, and privacy protection technologies. Recognized as world leader in the field of human-computer interaction for privacy/security systems.

Provided leadership to human factors research and development group (6-8 people) with a primary focus on setting and achieving performance targets for voice and multimedia communications. Results used to maintain lead in voice quality and win competitive contracts.

Conducted market research on advanced healthcare services and multimedia response time requirements. Results used to set performance standards for the Nortel products and an international standard on multimedia performance.

Conducted research on artificial intelligence for natural language understanding, advanced multimedia services, and the social impacts of online community networks. Transferred technologies to companies and organizations who went on to develop commercial products. Developed and taught industrial training programs on WWW technologies.

PISA Privacy Agent Prototype. A stand-alone simulator of privacy-controlling interfaces to demonstrate system characteristics and allow usability testing. Developed with the PISA partners.

AVC (Access Grid Venue Customizer). A proof-of-concept shared application for customizing Access Grid virtual venues. Developed with the AVC Development Team. Released under open-source license.

PrivWatch. System to detect and monitor privacy breaches on the Gnutella Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network and show results in a Flash interface. Developed with the NRC Information Security Group. Online demonstration is available.